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"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "government by elders",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "gerontokrācija"
},
{
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "government by elders",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "gerontokracija"
},
{
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "government by elders",
"word": "gerontokrasi"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "government by elders",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "gerontokrati"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "government by elders",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "gerontokracja"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "government by elders",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "gerontocracia"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "government by elders",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "gerontocrație"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "gerontokrátija",
"sense": "government by elders",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "геронтокра́тия"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "government by elders",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"feminine"
],
"word": "геронтокрација"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "government by elders",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"feminine"
],
"word": "gerontokracija"
},
{
"code": "scn",
"lang": "Sicilian",
"sense": "government by elders",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "jiruntucrazzìa"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "government by elders",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "gerontokracia"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "government by elders",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "gerontokracija"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "government by elders",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "gerontocracia"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "government by elders",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "gerontokrati"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "government by elders",
"word": "gerontokrasi"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "herontokratija",
"sense": "government by elders",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "геронтократія"
}
],
"word": "gerontocracy"
}
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